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CPE Resident AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

• Received Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in January 2019
• Providing faith-based, whole person care to Kansas City since 1962
• Excellent health benefits, an onsite child care center and fitness facility  
• Tuition reimbursement to support continuing education
• Employee Referral Program
• Largest health care provider in Johnson County with three campuses

• Demonstrate through behavior Adventist Health System’s core values of:
• Quality and Service Excellence, Community Wellness, High Ethical Standards, Stewardship and Inclusiveness.

• Utilize knowledge of the levels of growth, development, and skills for pediatric,
• adolescent, adult, and geriatric care for purposes of clinical spiritual ministry and clinical spiritual
• leadership learning.

• Engage fully in learning and ministry, maintaining investment in personal learning and growth as
• well as the art and skill of spiritual care giving.

• Responsible to the Director of Pastoral Care and their CPE Supervisor. Maintains
• communication, collaboration and accountability with leaders in the Department of Pastoral
• Care.

• Provide regular and consistent spiritual care to patients and their families as scheduled and
• appropriate, without exception, regardless of: faith, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, social
• or financial status, always caring for patients and staff with respect and dignity.

• Work closely with nursing and other care team members to discuss issues of patient care and to
• provide support during personal and/or spiritual crises.

• Take on-duty and on-call as assigned and scheduled, communicating professionally with others
• any schedule changes that may be necessary.

• Conduct devotional services and chapel services as assigned.

• Make routine spiritual care contacts, connect with pre-surgery patients, nursing units, and
• respond to crisis calls appropriately and in a timely fashion when on duty.

• Perform duties and spiritual care ministry in compliance with the Policies for the Department of
• Pastoral Education and the Department of Pastoral Care.

·     One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education from an Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. accredited center

·     College degree in theological studies or related field (i.e.: behavioral sciences, education

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Residents are spiritual care ministers and members of the healthcare team. The CPE Resident is committed to the hospitalâ™s mission of extending the healing ministry of Christ. The CPE Resident is in an educational program, learning through practice and reflection the art and discipline of spiritual care for patients, patient families, and employees. As the CPE Resident learns, he/she becomes more skilled in the provision of care to those persons â“ from many backgrounds, belief systems and ages â“ from birth to geriatrics. The CPE Resident reflects a diversity of spiritual and professional gifts. Each CPE Resident will have some involvement in providing care in all areas of the hospital, and perhaps on a variety of campuses, and/or may be more involved in a certain area or with a certain age group or demographic than others. Regardless of where serving, the CPE Resident will be expected to learn effective ways of caring for persons of a variety of spiritual needs, religious values, beliefs and practices of all faiths; responding in a way that communicates compassion, empathy, respect and dignity with care. CPE Residents actively participate in outstanding customer service and accept responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectable to all